Non car people be like

[68BabyBlue]

why do you have so many ?

In case one breaks down.

Why don’t you just get a new car ?

Why don’t you just shut up

Not that I really have that many cars compared to others, but I still get asked that, and the other question “Why don’t you get a new car”

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In the late 90s, I owned, at the same time, a '66 Imperial, a '79 Cadillac Seville, a '91 Turbo Stealth R/T, a '96 Toyota Camry (wife's daily), and the flagship, a 1960 Chrysler 300F that was my weekend toy. Always working on the Imperial and the Caddy, drove the Stealth when they were down. I got the why don't you buy a new car question all the time, and replied that I was cheap, which was true. I had a hard time defending the story when someone who knew me saw the 300F for the first time.

 

[DeltaV]

When are you going to be done?
Are you done yet?
Your almost done huh?

Another one is:
Can you work on my car?

 

[Cranky]

why do you have so many ?

In case one breaks down.

Why don’t you just get a new car ?

Why don’t you just shut up

Not that I really have that many cars compared to others, but I still get asked that, and the other question “Why don’t you get a new car”

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I got the same questions asked.....my main reply was 'I didn't want to have a car payment' and that usually shut them up.

That me in trouble. I needed to change the rear main seal and front cover gasket on my gtx. Well
It’s easier to remove the engine, and if the engine is out and that far apart….why not put a bigger cam in it. Just mind blowing to non car people. What was wrong with the cam in it? Nothing, I just didn’t like it

Or the car never got put back together! Have one like that now that's been apart for way too long. Life got in the way too many times and now I'm old....

Them: Why do you have so many cars? You can't drive them all at once.

Me: How many pairs of socks do you own?

My reply was 'how many pairs of shoes do you have'....and that usually shut them up.

In the late 90s, I owned, at the same time, a '66 Imperial, a '79 Cadillac Seville, a '91 Turbo Stealth R/T, a '96 Toyota Camry (wife's daily), and the flagship, a 1960 Chrysler 300F that was my weekend toy. Always working on the Imperial and the Caddy, drove the Stealth when they were down. I got the why don't you buy a new car question all the time, and replied that I was cheap, which was true. I had a hard time defending the story when someone who knew me saw the 300F for the first time.

LOL!! Had 12 cars at one time....5 were in the garage, 2 were on the driveway 'wings', 2 beside the garage and 3 behind it. Whenever someone that didn't know me all too well came over and saw the ones sitting outside they would as me why I didn't have them inside the garage. C'mon in and I'll show you why lol. Their jaws usually dropped some and then more when I opened the back overhead door. My sister was the worse one. Told her that she had all of her plants and stuff to tend to (the inside of her house looked like a show house...OCD was in play imo) and look at and my cars was my therapy that I could drive and play with!

 

[Cranky]

Another one is:
Can you work on my car?

I got that too!! My answer was generally no....cause I was too busy working on other people's stuff lol. Their look was of bewilderment but usually I would say that to the ones that belittled me for having so many cars.

 

[chargervert]

Mopars are NEVER DONE!

 

[Cranky]

Mopars are NEVER DONE!

Had a 66 Mustang Fastback that I put together.....even though it was pretty much done, it still needed some body and paint work but the paint on it wasn't all that bad. Most of my cars were done 'enough' to suit me and some even had working AC! That's important where I live.

 

[eldubb440]

Mopars are NEVER DONE!

you need to focus, Grasshopper

 

[themechanic]

Mopars are NEVER DONE!

I saw a personalized license plate that read, "NVRDONE".

 

[Cranky]

I saw a personalized license plate that read, "NVRDONE".

Imo, most are never done. There was always something that I wanted to do different....

 

[themechanic]

I'm pretty content with my Coronet and 23 Challenger.

 

[71RRHI]

I was at a family get together, my sister inlaw, started talking to me about her late 80's Toyota truck. Telling me it was something special that everybody wants, I was polite and listend. Then she said since I like working on old cars, would I want to restore it for her and she pay for all the parts. I simply said NO, turned around and walked away.

 

[Rishi]

I was at a family get together, my sister inlaw, started talking to me about her late 80's Toyota truck. Telling me it was something special that everybody wants, I was polite and listend. Then she said since I like working on old cars, would I want to restore it for her and she pay for all the parts. I simply said NO, turned around and walked away.

My motivation to restore comes from love. Love easily distracted by the love of a woman, but I digress. If I don't love the car, I got no motivation to restore it. But that love can drive me to do some oddball things, like spending over an hour to clean this upper control arm and ball joint top. I was doing the brakes, and the backing plate took minutes to clean, but years of hardened grease and dirt around the ball joint grease zerk took well over an hour to clean off. I even recognized some red dirt from a driveway 20 years prior. If that's not love... it's a sickness. I may need a therapist.